Android EditText, soft keyboard show/hide event?

Question

Is it possible to catch the event that Soft Keyboard was shown or hidden for EditText?

Answer 1

Hi I'd used following workaround:

As far as my content view is a subclass of LinearLayout (could be any other view or view group), I'd overridden onMeasure method lilke following:

@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    final int proposedheight = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
    final int actualHeight = getHeight();

    if (actualHeight > proposedheight){
        // Keyboard is shown
    } else {
        // Keyboard is hidden
    }

    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
}

This workaround helped me to hide some controls when keyboard is showing and bring back otherwise.

Hope this would be useful.

Answer 2

There actually isn't such an event to catch. The IME is simply showing and hiding its window; the feedback you get from this is the window manager causing your own window's content to resize if you have put it in resize mode.

Answer 3

I solved this issue by using onGlobalLayoutListener :

 final View activityRootView = findViewById(R.id.top_root);
        activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
            public void onGlobalLayout() {
                int heightDiff = activityRootView.getRootView().getHeight() - activityRootView.getHeight();

                if (heightDiff > 100) {
                    // keyboard is up
                } else {
                    // keyboard is down
                }
            }
        });

Here activityRootView is your Activity's root view.

Answer 4

In my case I wanted to hide a bottom bar when softkeyboard was shown. I considered best to just hide the bar when layout had less than a percent size of normal layout size. So I used this solution that works fine considering that soft keyboard usually takes 20% or more screen height. Just change the percent constant by any value you may think is ok. It needs attribute android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" in manifest and layout must be the root to work.

Extend from any layout you may want instead of RelativeLayout.

public class SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout extends RelativeLayout {
    private boolean isKeyboardShown = false;
    private List<SoftKeyboardLsner> lsners=new ArrayList<SoftKeyboardLsner>();
    private float layoutMaxH = 0f; // max measured height is considered layout normal size
    private static final float DETECT_ON_SIZE_PERCENT = 0.8f;

    public SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @SuppressLint("NewApi")
    public SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs,
            int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        final int newH = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
        if (newH > layoutMaxH) {
            layoutMaxH = newH;
        }
        if (layoutMaxH != 0f) {
            final float sizePercent = newH / layoutMaxH;
            if (!isKeyboardShown && sizePercent <= DETECT_ON_SIZE_PERCENT) {
                isKeyboardShown = true;
                for (final SoftKeyboardLsner lsner : lsners) {
                    lsner.onSoftKeyboardShow();
                }
            } else if (isKeyboardShown && sizePercent > DETECT_ON_SIZE_PERCENT) {
                isKeyboardShown = false;
                for (final SoftKeyboardLsner lsner : lsners) {
                    lsner.onSoftKeyboardHide();
                }
            }
        }
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    }

    public void addSoftKeyboardLsner(SoftKeyboardLsner lsner) {
        lsners.add(lsner);
    }

    public void removeSoftKeyboardLsner(SoftKeyboardLsner lsner) {
        lsners.remove(lsner);
    }

    // Callback
    public interface SoftKeyboardLsner {
        public void onSoftKeyboardShow();
        public void onSoftKeyboardHide();
    }
}

Example:

layout/my_layout.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<yourclasspackage.SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/myLayout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
    ...
</yourclasspackage.SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout>

MyActivity.java

public class MyActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.my_layout);
        SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout layout = (SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.myLayout);
        layout.addSoftKeyboardLsner(new SoftKeyboardLsner() {
            @Override
            public void onSoftKeyboardShow() {
                Log.d("SoftKeyboard", "Soft keyboard shown");
            }

            @Override
            public void onSoftKeyboardHide() {
                Log.d("SoftKeyboard", "Soft keyboard hidden");
            }
        });
    }
}

Answer 5

try these methods: showSoftInput(View, int, ResultReceiver) and hideSoftInputFromWindow(IBinder, int, ResultReceiver). You can override onReceiveResult(int resultCode, Bundle resultData) method of ResultReceiver class to handle show/hide event.

Answer 6

Many of Android developer like to alter the layout based on whether the virtual keyboard is shown or not.so for solution you can see Android: Detect softkeyboard open.and it is working for me and i think it is so usefull as well.

Answer 7

You can capture this by overwriting the onConfigurationChanged method of your activity:

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
   super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

   if(newConfig.hardKeyboardHidden == Configuration.HARDKEYBOARDHIDDEN_NO) {
      ((SherlockFragmentActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().hide();
   }
   else if(newConfig.hardKeyboardHidden == Configuration.HARDKEYBOARDHIDDEN_YES){
      ((SherlockFragmentActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().show();
   }
}